The works of Shakespear : in nine volumes : with a glossary
William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe, Thomas Hanmer, Samuel Birt (Bookseller), Thomas Longman (Bookseller), Henry Lintot (Bookseller), Charles Hitch (Bookseller), James Hodges (Bookseller), John Brindley (Bookseller), Somerset Draper (Bookseller), Benjamin Dodd (Bookseller), Charles Corbett (Bookseller), Michael van der Gucht (Printmaker), Hubert François Gravelot (Associated name), John and Paul Knapton (Firm) (Bookseller), J. and R. Tonson (Bookseller)
Print Book, English, MDCCL-MDCCLI [1750-1751]
Printed for J. and P. Knapton; S. Birt; T. Longman; H. Lintott; C. Hitch; J. Hodges; J. Brindley; J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; B. Dod; and C. Corbet, London, MDCCL-MDCCLI [1750-1751]
9 v. : 2 ill., port. (engravings) ; 14 cm. (12mo)
15306763
v. 1. Tempest ; Midsummer night's dream ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor
v. 2. Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Merchant of Venice ; Love's labours lost
v. 3. As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night
v. 4. Winter's tale ; King Lear ; King John ; King Richard II
v. 5. King Henry IV. Part 1 ; King Henry IV. Part 2 ; King Henry V ; King Henry VI. Part 1
v. 6. King Henry VI. Part 2 ; King Henry VI. Part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII
v. 7. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra
v. 8. Titus Andronicus ; Macbeth ; Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline
v. 9. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Edited by Sir Thomas Hanmer
Contains of the plays only
Vol. 1 with a general title page; all volumes with a dated volume title page stating: "the works of Mr. William Shakespear : volume the first [second, etc.] ... "; all plays with an individual play half-title
Vol. 1 general title page, and v. 1 and v. 9 volume title pages dated 1751. Vol. 2-8 volume title pages dated 1750
Engraved frontispiece portrait lettered: Vander Gucht s. Shakespeare's monument in Westminster Abbey engraving after Gravelot, unlettered (v. 1)
Vol. 1 with a preface, Pope's preface, Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe. Vol. 9 with a glossary